"AFj's PhD" blog was created in 2004 to report on-line the PhD work of Alfredo Ferreira (Jr). After finishing his PhD in July 2009, the posting was suspended.

However, after several requests, the blog was reactivated in October 2010."AFj's PhD and after" blog will provide information on Alfredo Ferreira's work as a researcher in INESC-ID and his activities as a Assistant Professor at IST/TULisbon.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Running programs does not appear in XP taskbar

I have no idea why, but the XP taskbar of my TabletPC stop showing the list of running programs. Surprisingly, this is a quite annoying failure, making it hard for me to continue working without solving this problem.

After a few searches on the internet, I found out that this is not supposed to happen. Thus, since there are no way to turn off the running programs listing, there are no obvious way to turn this feature on.

Fortunately, I found a solution at Kelly's Korner, where Kelly Theriot, a Microsoft MVP has a set of tweaks. A VBScript that will change the registry to reset the properties of the XP taskbar is available on the tweaks page, item #240, referred as "Programs Aren't Minimized in the Taskbar". It worked fine for me. The "running programs" area returned to my taskbar and I just needed to restore the personalized settings.